Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[beans-on-toast]

It's not Cantonese but it is elbow room for grumpiness: finding a restaurant that serves proper Ma Po's Bean Curd is harder to find than a perfect metaphor. I have to make it myself to get it close to right.

Had to look up MaPo’s Bean Curd.

In this case, what they are calling bean curd looks like tofo. The bean curd that I’ve bought is a dessert. It looks more like agar, a thickened gel, used in micro-biology labs to culture organisms.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Fresh-fried bass (caught last night), saffron rice (Zataran's Yellow), and cornbread...

 

[Jeff Scott]

We did Aussie (um, if you can call it that) food tonight (Outback Steakhouse ). Still looking for an authentic wombat burger.

Tomorrow is Asian (all you can eat buffet), for a send-off of a couple of family members who (love Kumo: Kumo Japanese Seafood Buffet - All You Can Eat - Parma, OH 44134) are moving back to south Florida (not sure why though, as our weather the past couple of days and into Sunday is just like the weather - heat and humidity - as down there).

 

[the harp unstrung]

Happy Friday GOF's--

Tonight we're doing a home pizza and a movie date.

So what say ye, GOF's. What are you up to this weekend? Oh and Happy Friday!

What’dja watch?

It is Full On grand daughter time for the next 10 daze.

I’m good!

 

[the harp unstrung]

...so now the trick is going to be keeping our regular guitarist/songwriter from getting bent out of shape due to having someone much better than he is in the band.

Gawd bless ewe mah Sun!

 

[LBS-bass]

Gawd bless ewe mah Sun!

It's funny; I've found through the years that, when it comes to people with limited skills who know they are limited, there are two types. The first type is the one who feels threatened by anyone who is better than they are so they find people who aren't as good to work with so that they'll look good by comparison.

The second type is the one who looks better than they are because they surround themselves with stellar talent who do a lot of heavy lifting, so no one notices the one player's limitations. I'm definitely limited, and I tend to be more in the second group, though admittedly I don't have a clue what I'd do if I were asked to play with another bassist who had mad skilz I don't have.

 

[the harp unstrung]

There are type 3 of us...

The voyeur in me who Loves having his ass kicked by a stranger...preferably playing my ‘74 Ric.

 

[GonePlaid]

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Easy for you to say.

 

[Jeff Scott]

01100111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01101111 01100110 01100110 00100000 01101101 01111001 00100000 01101100 01100001 01110111 01101110 00101100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110011 01100011 01110010 01100001 01110111 01101110 01111001 00100000 01101100 01101001 01110100 01110100 01101100 01100101 00100000 01100010 01110010 01100001 01110100 01110011 00100001

 

[Jeff Scott]

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[beans-on-toast]

01100111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01101111 01100110 01100110 00100000 01101101 01111001 00100000 01101100 01100001 01110111 01101110 00101100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110011 01100011 01110010 01100001 01110111 01101110 01111001 00100000 01101100 01101001 01110100 01110100 01101100 01100101 00100000 01100010 01110010 01100001 01110100 01110011 00100001

Would the digital enveloped kids on your lawn understand binary?

 

[LBS-bass]

01000011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01110111 01100101 00100000 01100100 01101001 01110011 01100011 01110101 01110011 01110011 00100000 01110000 01101111 01101100 01101001 01110100 01101001 01100011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110111 01100001 01111001 00111111

01010000 01110010 01101111 01100010 01100001 01100010 01101100 01111001 00100000 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01101110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100111 01101111 01101111 01100100 00100000 01101001 01100100 01100101 01100001

 

[beans-on-toast]

01000011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01110111 01100101 00100000 01100100 01101001 01110011 01100011 01110101 01110011 01110011 00100000 01110000 01101111 01101100 01101001 01110100 01101001 01100011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110111 01100001 01111001 00111111

Yes! That was my point of bring up binary test when Charlie pointed out what we were not supposed to discuss here. It's a way to "encrypt" the text. Similar to speaking binary as a language and using an ascii to binary converter like we've been doing, google translate can be used to translate between different languages.

This is the above text translated to Irish with google translate (https://translate.google.com).

Tá! Ba é sin mo phointe tástála dénártha nuair a chuir Charlie in iúl nach raibh sé i gceist againn a phlé anseo. Is bealach é chun an téacs a chriptiú. Is féidir le sraitheanna dénártha a labhairt mar theanga agus tiontaire ascii go dénártha a úsáid mar atá déanta againn, aistriúchán google a úsáid chun teangacha éagsúla a aistriú.

 

[sharkbait130]

It's funny; I've found through the years that, when it comes to people with limited skills who know they are limited, there are two types. The first type is the one who feels threatened by anyone who is better than they are so they find people who aren't as good to work with so that they'll look good by comparison.

The second type is the one who looks better than they are because they surround themselves with stellar talent who do a lot of heavy lifting, so no one notices the one player's limitations. I'm definitely limited, and I tend to be more in the second group, though admittedly I don't have a clue what I'd do if I were asked to play with another bassist who had mad skilz I don't have.

The band I'm currently in has some incredible players in it. A couple of them have toured with national acts in the past and one was on the USO circuit for several years. I know the two bass players that preceded me and both could smoke me on the instrument with out raising a sweat. The problem was (as I understand it) they were so good that they had trouble backing off and just playing the songs. Since I don't have those mad skills , I don't have to worry about backing off and can just play the songs and keep the groove which I am very good at. I also have no problem helping to set up and tear down at the end of the night. There's a lot more to it than just being able to shred the instrument. I'm here and they are not. Just saying.

 

[beans-on-toast]

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Looking at the binary text reminds me of the early days of digital printers when halftoning was used. I worked on techniques for better representations of digital images. Spacing individual pixels as well as those grouped in patterns. It's funny, our eyes perform low and high pass filtering in these type of images. The filters that we use in audio are based on nature.

As you would know, newspapers used the techniques dating back to the 1800's. It was an amazing technology for them at the time. Years later it was adapter for computers.

 

[beans-on-toast]

The band I'm currently in has some incredible players in it. A couple of them have toured with national acts in the past and one was on the USO circuit for several years. I know the two bass players that preceded me and both could smoke me on the instrument with out raising a sweat. The problem was (as I understand it) they were so good that they had trouble backing off and just playing the songs. Since I don't have those mad skills , I don't have to worry about backing off and can just play the songs and keep the groove which I am very good at. I also have no problem helping to set up and tear down at the end of the night. There's a lot more to it than just being able to shred the instrument. I'm here and they are not. Just saying.

It's true, gifted players often want to overplay to demonstrate their abilities. I find that it can get boring fast. There are many amazing players that have put out albums that never went anywhere. A gifted songwriter is something else. Much better to have in your band.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Easy for you to say.

Just plug the text into this: Binary to Ascii Text Converter

Kind of like the secret decoder used in the Little Orphan Annie broadcasts. NBC, sponsored by Ovaltine.

Little Orphan Annie

 

[beans-on-toast]

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I wonder if the TalkBass Administrators speak binary?

 

[LBS-bass]

I wonder if the TalkBass Administrators speak binary?

If they didn't before, they will soon

 

[GwenOnBass]

Had to look up MaPo’s Bean Curd.

In this case, what they are calling bean curd looks like tofo. The bean curd that I’ve bought is a dessert. It looks more like agar, a thickened gel, used in labs to culture bacteria.

Yep, tofu.

Some while ago a friend was on a anti-tofu crusade for her family as a result of undercomprehension picked up from the InterWebs regarding soy and estrogen.

Tofu works well for me as something enhanced by other ingredients. Today at the growers' market, picked up organic aubergines, courgettes, garlic, cilantro and red plums.

It's funny; I've found through the years that, when it comes to people with limited skills who know they are limited, there are two types. The first type is the one who feels threatened by anyone who is better than they are so they find people who aren't as good to work with so that they'll look good by comparison.

The second type is the one who looks better than they are because they surround themselves with stellar talent who do a lot of heavy lifting, so no one notices the one player's limitations. I'm definitely limited, and I tend to be more in the second group, though admittedly I don't have a clue what I'd do if I were asked to play with another bassist who had mad skilz I don't have.

And behold, the mediocre bassist's club.
The Mediocre Bassist Club

Looking at the binary text reminds me of the early days of digital printers when halftoning was used. I worked on techniques for better representations of digital images. Spacing individual pixels as well as those grouped in patterns. It's funny, our eyes perform low and high pass filtering in these type of images. The filters that we use in audio are based on nature.

As you would know, newspapers used the techniques dating back to the 1800's. It was an amazing technology for them at the time. Years later it was adapter for computers.

My personal take regarding cold type feels a great deal like the show competitions between horses and those new-fangled steam powered locomotives. The compositors of old who never wore a wedding ring on account of the Linotype keyboard being a tricky thing were slow to cede authority to computer type. The center of the cyclone! And never in all my born days have I ever seen a more useless language, typographically speaking, than HTML. grump grump grump